Saturday, 23 November 2013

Morning mixtapers & I'm back for more mix marvelousness. Its Soul Niceness 60- yes the series is eligible for a bus pass!

The 10 rare groove and soul gems start with the guys that had a massive hit with Float On ('and my name is Larry') The Floaters of course, the godfather- JB teams up with Minnie Ripperton no less for a rare slice of 2 step, Hi records is represented by Erma Coffee, a Don Downing favourite features as does a wicked Blackbyrds dancer, and we finish with some funk from the Transgressors.

More SoulNRnB midweek magic up soon and i'll catch you in a weeks time!

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Some great music on this. The UK's own Divageek team up with one of my favorite vocalists, Lalah Hathaway for a massive tune. then there's one of my Jazz tracks of the year from Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle who have an excellent LP out on Bandcamp and iTunes you should check out.

Veterans Nile Rogers and Vesta Williams make an appearance, as does Daru Jones with a track from his new LP produced by Marc Mac. Top it off with some soulful Hip Hop from Tanya Morgan and MED and youve got an eclectic new mix.

Track list, as always, on the Mixcloud widget below. Looking forward to Grizz's Rare Groove selection at the weekend. In the meantime gonna carry on working on that End of year review that Grizz hinted at last post. We've got some big names picking their faves of the year again. Stay tuned!!

Saturday, 9 November 2013

Back to the decade when I still had lots of hair but very few bills to pay- the 1980's and its Soulful 80's Volume 20.

Ten 30something nuggets- at least 3 or 4 of which I seem to recall costing me a pretty penny on import vinyl back in the day! Starts with an 80's Soul club classic with Weeks & Co, includes a Bliss funker, some Britfunk with North London's' Light of the World, a Pfunk treasure from Roger Troutman, & finishes with the BBQ Band plus another 5 good grooves!

See you Sunday week with more memory jogging Soul n Rare Grooves... SoulNRnB is just around the corner!

Grizz

http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/12464830/file.htmlWeeks & co- if youre looking for fun
Bliss- Fun
The Antilles- Ive got to have you
Titus Williams- Give me some love tonight
Norma Jean Wright- Love Attack
Light of the World- I can’t stop
Roger Troutman- Do it Roger
RumpleStiltsSkin- I think I wanna dance with you
Selection- Got to be real
BBQ Band- Imagination

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Were only weeks away from Xmas, and the last few releases are gonna be with us over the coming weeks.

Big releases recently are the new Robert Glasper "Black Radio 2" LP which is excellent and we feature a track with Faith Evans on vocals. Another biggie is the new Amel Larrieux LP and we feature a great tune from that too.

There's a great Opolopo remix of a track from Omar's "The Man" LP, the UK's own Tony Momrelle hooking up with Reel People again for "Fly", plus more big names like Leela James and Anthony Hamilton, Georgia Ann Muldrow's project under Pattie Blingh & the Akebulan plus so much more.

Take a listen below, tracklist on the Mixcloud widget.

I'm currently prepping our annual end of year Review for the blog and have been talking to a certain Carl Mcintosh of Loose Ends fame and wanted to give a heads up to our UK readers that Loose Ends will be hitting Manchester 9th, West Midlands 15th, an acoustic show in Tufnell Park on the 23rd and Hull 29th, all November. Fans of "A little Spice", "Hanging on a string" or "Gonna make you mine" take note!

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Never one to pass up a challenge... here's my take on the slow jams theme- Soul Heartbreakers. A tad too melancholy for my Mellow Grooves series perhaps but even we at the Mixtape can embrace our emotions sometimes!

Ten lingering tunes from back in the day that are choc of tear-jerking soul. We kick off with the Memphis sound & Jean Plum, then an early track from Mr 'Groove On' Willie 'Little Beaver' Hale, Billy Paul obviously got the bill for his divorce when he wrote his song on the mix, includes an Al Wilson gem and we finish with a Ruby Winters version of the Kris Kristofferson penned tune and one of break-up records of all time!

Jean Plum- Loneliness
Little Beaver- I’m losing the feelin’
Equasions- its so hard to say so long
Jacqueline Wilson- Keep in touch
Anne Cole - don’t stop the wedding
Sonia Rosa- Here’s that rainy day
Billy Paul- I was married
Al Wilson- Goin through the motions
Susan Phillips- He’s gone
Ruby Winters- For the good times